Naomi likes this photo taken at a restaurant on the road from Hiekawa to Amagikogen. We visited this restaurant with Eiichi Onodera and his wife several years ago to have inoshishi nabe. This time it was for the udon, but we had some cold inoshishi rib tidbits to knaw on and a plate of warm inoshishi "aburi" to chew too. We were on our way back from the Marshall house at Iritahama - beach shot of me and Naomi - and had stopped at the inoshishi center on Rte. 414 earlier.
We got back to our place for an early evening - I slept through the new year and we didn't open the champagne until the next evening!
